The rental places will sell you one cheap too. They like to get rid of them before they start looking shabby.
Graywolf (Tom Rittenhouse) Website: http://www.graywolfphoto.com Blog: http://www.graywolfphoto.com/journal/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Stan Halpin wrote: > As to fancy dress outfits, we go to a fund-raising ball once a year. > After a couple of rentals I gave up and bought a tux. But I asked a > musician friend for advice, he sent me to the store where all the > symphony musicians and head waiters go for their duds. Not Armani, > but half-way decent and quite cheap! > > Stan > > On Jan 2, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Bob W wrote: > >>> Back around 1999 or 2000 my wife was working for, ahem, Andersen >>> Consulting. >> I worked for them in 1997/8. I had worked for a London department >> store which was part of a larger group. The larger group outsourced >> its IT & finance to the androids and I was scooped up. >> >>> We did the black tie thing on a regular basis. >> We did before we were outsourced. The department store was into that >> sort of thing, so my dinner suit (which I still have, and which still >> fits) was bought on massive staff discount. Before a black tie evening >> the menswear department closed early so that the staff could help the >> directors with their bow ties. >> >> -- >> Bob >> >> > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
